Lenina and Bernard find who they are inside doesn't align with who they're told to be." “No one wants to be anything other than what they are until John disrupts those notions. That makes the hierarchy pure as an idea,” Wiener explains. But when Lenina takes a vacation to the "Savage Lands" with her boss, Bernard Marx (Harry Lloyd), she meets John (Alden Ehrenreich, Solo: A Star Wars Story), an outsider who opens her eyes to new/old ideas about the world. Like other Betas, Lenina is sexually hyper-active and has a routine intake of "soma," a mandatory drug that induces artificial happiness. Played by Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Lenina is a "Beta," an upper class tier in New London's hierarchy. Lenina, played by Jessica Brown Findlay, is a pivotal character in the new Peacock streaming series 'Brave New World.' Her role is expanded upon her less-involved role in Aldous Huxley's original novel. For our story Lenina is very much at the center.” "She is the same at the beginning of the book as the end. "Lenina doesn't evolve in the book," he says. Wiener zeroed in on the book's characters, specifically Lenina Crowne, someone Wiener feels was "an oversight" in the book and "a product" of Huxley's time. "It’s a Utopian book that exposes the dystopia inside humans." I think it has a genre of its own," Wiener says. "A lot of people think the book is dystopian. Even on Wikipedia, Brave New World is described as a "dystopian novel." “It’s a Utopian book that exposes the dystopia inside humans.” Where to begin? First, Wiener started with what he thinks the book is not.
But as the streaming wars heat up, NBC is giving Brave New World its overdue prestige treatment.
This is the third time NBC adapts Huxley’s book to television screens. Set in a future “New London” ruled by class hierarchy and bodily pleasures that dull the populace, an outsider disrupts order with chaotic ideas like love, liberty, and individuality. Premiering July 15 on NBC's Peacock, Brave New World adapts Huxley’s most famous work for a streaming audience.
It was being true to the ideas,” showrunner David Wiener tells Inverse. "It wasn’t a matter of adapting the book faithfully. In doing so, some changes had to be made. In 1932, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New Worldenvisioned a future that was anything but.Īlmost 90 years later, a new show attempts to modernize a science fiction novel of overwhelming influence in an overwhelming year.
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